Chapter 6

Question 0

Focusing on one thing amid a group setting

Answer 0

Cocktail party effect

Question 1

The focusing of concsious awareness on a particular stimulus as in the cocktail party affect

Answer 1

Selective attention

Question 2

Failing to see visible objects when attention is directed elsewhere

Answer 2

Inattentional blindness

Question 3

Doesn’t notice a change in vision - out of sight out of mind

Answer 3

Change blindness

Question 4

Didn’t notice a change in sound

Answer 4

Change deafness

Question 5

Not recognizing what was chosen

Answer 5

Choice blindness

Question 6

Denying falling for a hypothetical experiment

Answer 6

Choice blindness blindness

Question 7

Noticeably different stimuli demanding attention

Answer 7

Pop out phenomena

Question 8

Visual stimuli perceived differently from reality

Answer 8

Illusions

Question 9

Tendency for vision to dominate other senses

Answer 9

Visual capture

Question 10

An organized whole. Integration of pieces into meaningful wholes

Answer 10

Gestalt

Question 11

Organization of the visual field into objects that stand out from surroundings

Answer 11

Figure ground

Question 12

Tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups

Answer 12

Grouping

Question 13

Grouping nearby figured together

Answer 13

Proximity

Question 14

Grouping similar figures together

Answer 14

Similarity

Question 15

Perceiving smooth continuous patterns

Answer 15

Continuity

Question 16

Uniform and linked together

Answer 16

Connectedness

Question 17

Filling in gaps creating a whole object

Answer 17

Closure

Question 18

Ability to see objects in 3D to judge distance

Answer 18

Depth perception

Question 19

Lab device testing depth perception

Answer 19

Visual cliff

Question 20

Depth cues, retinal disparity and convergence, depend on two eyes

Answer 20

Binocular cues

Question 21

Binocular cue for perceiving depth, greater = closer and vis versa

Answer 21

Retinal disparity

Question 22

Binocular cue for perceiving depth- converging inward. Greater = inward strain = closer

Answer 22

Convergence

Question 23

Depth cues with interposition, linear perspective available to either eye alone

Answer 23

Monocular cues

Question 24

More distance makes it smaller and vis versa

Answer 24

Relative size

Question 25

Object overlaps another

Answer 25

Interposition

Question 26

Hazy = further away and vis versa

Answer 26

Relative clarity

Question 27

Texture signals determine distance

Answer 27

Texture gradient

Question 28

Higher = further away! shorter = closer

Answer 28

Relative height

Question 29

Objects more stable appear to move

Answer 29

Relative motion

Question 30

Parallel lines converge with distance

Answer 30

Linear perspective

Question 31

Nearby objects reflect light, dimmer = further away

Answer 31

Light and shadow

Question 32

An illusion of movement when lights blink in succession

Answer 32

Phi phenomenon

Question 33

Pictures put together to create movement. Stop motion

Answer 33

Stroboscopic movement

Question 34

Perceiving objects as Unchanging even as retinal images and illumination change

Answer 34

Perceptual constancy

Question 35

In vision, the ability to adjust to an artificially placed or inverted visual field

Answer 35

Perceptual adaptation

Question 36

Mental predisposition to perceive one thing and not the other

Answer 36

Perceptual set

Question 37

With experience we form concepts to organize and interpret unfamiliar info

Answer 37

Schema

Question 38

Psychologists who make machines easy to use

Answer 38

Human factors psychologists

Question 39

Perception can occur without sensory input

Answer 39

Extrasensory perception

Question 40

Study of paranormal or ESP phenomena

Answer 40

Parapsychology